Around £295,000 buys the middle of the market. Flats change hands near £150,000. Detached houses sit close to £390,000. Sixty-seven sales in a whole year, which is a market you could fit in a pub. What decides your budget here is the shape of the building, not the street it stands on.
The Land Registry's price paid record covers 67 sales in the year to May 2026, at a median of about £295,000. Detached homes ran to about £390,000 across 27 sales, terraced to about £271,000 across 10, semi-detached to about £270,000 across 13, and flats to about £150,000 across 17. Terraces and semis landing in the same place is the giveaway: in a village this size the label on the deeds does less work than what the windows point at.
The published house price index for the area put the average at about £257,000 in May 2026, down 0.1% across the twelve months. That is a change small enough to be a flat line with a bad day, and anyone dressing it up as either a slump or a recovery is working an angle. Flats moved more, down about 4% over the same year, with the index flat price at about £131,000.
Council tax comes in low. Band C is the most common band, about 37% of dwellings sit in bands A or B, and a band D bill runs to roughly £2,600 a year, which is the number to hold against whatever lands on your own doormat.
Renting is only measured across the whole Torridge area, so it is an area typical rather than the village's own figure. Typical private rent across Torridge was about £790 a month as of April 2026, and that is a mean from the official rent index rather than a median of what sits in an agent's window. By size it runs about £560 for a one-bedroom, about £740 for two, about £905 for three, and about £1,270 for four or more.
Then there is what people here actually earn. Modelled household income for the area was about £42,400 gross, before any tax comes off, for the financial year to March 2023, so it describes that year rather than this one. A median-priced home at about £295,000 sits well beyond what that income reaches on any ordinary lending multiple, which is why the flats and the smaller stock do the work for anyone buying on a local wage rather than arriving with the proceeds of somewhere else.
Measured by floor space, the median comes out at about £3,900 per square metre, on a typical floor area of 74 square metres. That covers the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 67% of them, so it is a solid read rather than a complete one. Seventy-four square metres is a compact footprint, and paying nearly four thousand pounds for each one of them concentrates the mind.
The bedroom mix from Census 2021 confirms the scale: about 38% of households have three bedrooms, about 35% have two, roughly 18% have four or more, and about 9% have one. Two and three bedrooms is what this place is built from, and anyone shopping for a large coastal pile is fishing a very small pond.
On price, the village comes out a shade better than average rather than cheap. It costs less than the sea view suggests it should, and in a market this thin, a couple of unusual sales can shove the middle around before anyone notices.